Hideki Yamane: > Hi Niels, > > Thanks for your explanation :) > > On Sat, 05 Jan 2019 09:52:00 +0000 > Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: >> We are very far from being able to flip the default. There are some >> 800+ packages that need to be updated to follow latest policy >> requirements plus explicitly declare their need for (fake)root. > > Okay, maybe we can achieve it as compat level 13, 14 or 15... > but loooog way to go, I agree with it. > >
Sorry, but this cannot be done via a compat level. If it could have, I would have done it in compat 12 and moved on. Please see #884999 for the reasons why debhelper cannot change this default for us. Thanks, ~Niels
